Television Rehearse in Ork's Loft

 

Forty years ago Television had begun playing Sundays fairly regularly at CBGB's, building up their act. This is a quite remarkable document. The best of twenty minutes showing them rehearsing early numbers in manager Terry Ork's loft. To my knowledge the only film of the Hell / Verlaine / Lloyd / Ficca incarnation playing together. After Hell was edged out of the picture the band became notorious for standing like statues onstage. Not the case here. The songs as listed on youtube are: 1. Double Exposure 2. Change Your Channels 3. Blues in 'C' (working title) 4. The Girl Can't Help It 5. High Heeled Wheels 6. Venus.

 

'The scene definitely started snowballing. CBGB's was clearly where things were happening, from the very first time we played there. We were really unique. There was not another rock & roll band in the world with short hair. There was not another rock & roll band with torn clothes. Everybody was still wearing glitter and women's clothes. We were these notch-thin, homeless hoodlums, playing really powerful, passionate music that was also lyrical.

 

I think we were the best band in the world that year. Well for the first four or five months.'

 

Richard Hell. From the best rock & roll book ever written.